FASCISM AND THE CROWN
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Douglas Goldring, is at pains to convince your readers that to support Sir Oswald Mosley is incompatible with loyalty to the crown. Without the least factual support for such a contention, it can only be assumed that Mr. Goldring is using a strong national sentiment in order to divert perfectly legitimate support from the ranks of the Fascists. The position of the crown in a Fascist State would indeed be more honourable and honoured than it is today—obliged to condone the presence in the House of Commons of a government led by a man whose first claim to fame was his refusal to fight for his country in the Great War.
In company with Mr. Goldring, I regard the monarchy as the most precious jewel in our constitution ; and with cer- tainly as much claim to the title of " Royalist " as he, I would ask him, if he be genuine, at least to enumerate his reasons for his extraordinary allegation. I cannot see that the monarchy in our present constitution is very much more than a puppet. To me it is a shameful monkery.—I am, Sir, &e.,
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